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Which t-shirt should Chelsea Clinton wear?

Full coverage of the US Elections 2008Denver, Colorado. Good to see that the Clinton campaign has got its priorities right. An email from Chelsea Clinton dropped into my inbox tonight, telling me: "Dear Toby, We need your help to make a critical decision – our next official campaign t-shirt." Hmm. Methinks it's going to take more than a new t-shirt to rescue her mother's campaign.

Chelsea Clinton campaigns in Pennsylvania last month

Hillaryland has been sounding more and more unhinged recently. Never mind the Robert Kennedy assassination remark, in hanging her last fading hopes on a party rethink on Florida and Michigan (DNC rules committee meets on Saturday, the candidate has been comparing the issue to the battle for civil rights, Zimbabwe and the Florida 2000 recount. Nothing like a bit of understatement. But that's almost mild compared to what hubby Bill's been saying.

Here's what he said in South Dakota: "So that's the reason there's this frantic effort to push her out because she's winning the general election today and he's not, according to all the evidence, and I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen the candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running." He accuses "they" (presumably the media) of conducting an anti-Hillary cover-up. Watch the video here:

Where to begin? Well, the notion that she is "winning the general election" is dubious at best. Some battleground state polls do have her leading John McCain by a bigger margin than Barack Obama. But some do not. And to rely on general election polling five months ahead of time when the primary is not resolved is more than a little problematic.

The notion that there has been a media cover-up to stop Hillary is paranoid nonsense. What you're seeing from Bill is an immense frustration that the inevitable Democratic nominee is now the inevitable losing candidate and he cannot believe that his chance for a third term and for vindication is slipping away and there's nothing he can do about it.

I won't begin to try to psycho-analyse the Clinton marriage but there's also something that seems like a degree of chivalry about his words he's pained that Hillary is losing and he's defending her any and every way he can. It's raw stuff.

Chelsea, in contrast, is a closed book I saw her campaigning in Pennsylvania and she was totally on-message and buttoned-down. Much more her mother than her father. In her emails, she opting for in-denial happy talk: "It was amazing to see the devotion to my mom's campaign come through in each t-shirt. Thank you to everyone who submitted a design!"

She does, however, end her email with a message that many in the Obama campaign would echo: "Go Hillary!". It looks like Hillary will indeed be gone very soon. She'll probably win Puerto Rico but opinion polls have her losing by big margins in South Dakota and Montana. Obama is currently just under 50 delegates away from victory.

That might change slightly once Florida and Michigan are resolved but two or three dozen super-delegates should put him over the top. There are indications that Obama could be saving up super-delegates to deliver a knock-out blow.

Oh, you can look at the Hillary t-shirts here and vote for your favourite. Might be worth holding fire on buying any though. I've a hunch they might soon be half price.